<B>Riverwood Announces Further Downtime</B>

Riverwood International Corp. announced that additional downtime of short durations will be taken at its two mills this month and October.

At Riverwood's Macon, Ga., mill, one paper machine will be down the week of Sept. 25^th. The second machine will be down the week of October 23rd. Both machines produce coated unbleached kraft board and linerboard. The additional planned downtime will reduce Macon production by about 5,000 tons of CUK and 5,000 tons of linerboard.

The company's West Monroe, La., mill will have its Paper Machine No. 2 down for two weeks, starting Oct. 22. The mill produces coated board and containerboard.

This action results from a number of factors, principally production above planned rates, slow recovery of soft drink demand, and a weak containerboard market.

The slackening containerboard industry has been the primary reason for the wholesale downtime being taken by board mills over the past several months. While Riverwood is only the most recent company to announce extended downtime for this month and next month, there are reports of a number of the larger board companies opting to schedule downtime for machines through the rest of this year.